KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet.

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers.

Cloud 113

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 113

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. The service workers also retrieve the latest data once the server connection is restored. Cached content with IndexedDB. Service Workers. Application shell architecture.

Cache 136

Cache Internet Internet Google 136

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Karthik Yagna , Baskar Odayarkoil , and Alex Ellis Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. Sample system diagram for an Alexa voice command.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The increasing sophistication of client-side JavaScript has redefined what dynamic means; where in the past dynamic content would be mainly server generated, today much content is served statically with JavaScript on the client side doing the dynamic modifications. No Server Required.

Servers 111

Servers Social Media AWS Website 111

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all. Coordinators are servers that receive queries and return results (search engines). CIDR’20.

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Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

These are advanced cloud configurations that allow you to protect your databases from the internet. At ScaleGrid we recommend you deploy your clusters on private VPC subnets so that your database is not routable from the internet. This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. Security Groups.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Amazon ElastiCache handles the complexity of creating, scaling and managing an in-memory cache to free up brainpower for more differentiating activities. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

Cloud 106

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 106

KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

Dubai - UAE Dubai has grown significantly over the past decades, not just demographically but also in terms of internet penetration. With an internet penetration of almost 92% , the UAE is among the highest worldwide. With Tel Aviv being the technology capital of Israel, it's the ideal edge server location.

Latency 110

Latency Internet Internet Speed 110

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. Did You Know?

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server. Installation and support of SSRS can be confusing.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This occurs when you are revalidating the page on the server. The first solution that comes to mind may be to simply server side render the pages, ensuring that the client is always sent the most up to date data. seconds for the Server Side Rendering variant (plus a warning regarding initial server response time).

Cache 119

Cache Servers Internet Internet 119

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Let’s talk about caching. We’re going to check out Cache-Control.

Cache 99

Cache Mobile Google Network 99

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Browser Caching: Although it may seem commonplace, caching is sometimes overlooked. Depending on how often you change content, you may want to set a long expiration time for your cache. Caching can ensure your browser doesn’t have to load all those elements if a visitor returns to your pages.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

If I change my user-agent to Internet Explorer 11, I’m served the font in the WOFF format instead. Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. The Google Fonts browser cache is set to expire after one year unless the cache is cleared sooner. — FAQ, Google Fonts.

Google 111

Google Performance Cache Website 111

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

How fast is the average time to first byte (server delay)? In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Unfortunately, the data from Backlinko paints a bleak picture when it comes to mobile internet browsing. How long is the average server delay? How fast is the average page load time in 2020?

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

In the radio portion of the network, 5G buffer sizes are 5x 4G, but within the wired portion of the network only about 2.5x (this is with a 1000 Mbps provisioned cloud server). When it comes to latency the authors measured RTTs for four 5G base stations spread across the city, and 20 other Internet servers nationwide.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Samsung Internet. The platforms that continue to hold back support are: Internet Explorer. It’ll handle the conversion, but it won’t help you modify your origin server so that it knows when to deliver WebPs and when to deliver a traditional image format to visitors. What Is WebP Caching? Opera Mini. Android Browser.

Website 75

Website Speed Cache Google 75

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. Over time, we’ve evolved through a variety of static site generators, JavaScript frameworks, and server technologies.

Google 111

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 111

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert. The factors that impact on LCP: Slow origin server response times Render-blocking JavaScript and CSS on page load Page Resource load times User side page rendering. Role of web servers in page load time –.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

HTTP Preload and HTTP/2’s feature “Server Push” are both methods that can be used to improve the loading efficiency of your web application. Traditionally, the client requesting resources from the server initially receives the HTML file and parses it to determine which assets it needs to request next.

Speed 99

Speed Servers Website Efficiency 99

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? How do you scale it through different servers? I have an iPhone X as my phone, and my testing device.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. The two types of Django deployments are: Single-Server. A single-server Django deployment is exactly what it sounds like: everything lives on a single server.

Media 77

Media Cache Storage AWS 77

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. At the time, Nanoc talked about compiling source files into HTML: It operates on local files, and therefore does not run on the server.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

This slowdown may be mitigated in Windows 11 but in the latest Windows Server editions – where it matters most – this bug is alive and well. Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. Server versions should be fine…. Case closed. well spent.

Cache 105

Cache Energy Google Processing 105

CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

Jeremy Wagner sets up a “Streaming” Service Worker that caches common partials on a website (e.g. the header and footer) such that the people of Waushara County, Wisconsin, who have slow internet can load the site somewhere in the vicinity of twice as fast. Now THAT’S What I Call Service Worker!

Performance 82

Performance Website Cache Internet 82

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Server-Side Performance.

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Email servers tend to blacklist certain IDs as spam based on their content. And if the mail server for the user is attached to the DNSBL database, then any emails coming from the list of blacklisted sites could be either flagged or rejected. This can give the company a clear idea of the status of the mail servers.

Monitoring 86

Monitoring Traffic Website Database 86

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

Technology 129

Technology Technology AWS Storage 129

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Chrome DevTools includes a separate “Performance” tab where the testing environment’s CPU and network connection can be artificially throttled to mirror a specific testing condition, such as slow internet speeds. DevTools throttling is easier to set up, but doesn’t accurately reflect how server connections work on the network.

Speed 117

Speed Google Website Metrics 117

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Now let’s upload our lazy-loading updates and try again: (Note that you’ll have to do hard-reload, clear cache, or use a new private browser to ensure we’re not taking advantage of the browser cache in our testing). I scoured the internet for popular lazy-loading libraries until I found the jQuery Lazy plugin.

Cache 75

Cache Speed Internet Internet 75

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

One example could be using an RDBMS for most of the Online transaction processing ( OLTP) data shared by country and having the products as distributed memory cache with a different technology. In shard-nothing, each shard can live in a totally separate logical schema instance / physical database server/data center/continent.

Traffic 144

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 144

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Although they let you access your data anywhere, all data access must go via the server, and you can only do the things that the server will let you do. Servers still exist, but they hold secondary copies of your data in order to assist with access from multiple devices. Unfortunately, cloud apps are problematic in this regard.

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83